NEW: Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin suffered a rocket engine explosion while testing its BE-4 rocket engine last month, according to a CNBC report.
Sign up here to receive weekly editions of CNBC's Investing in Space newsletterBlue Origin also said it will be able to"continue testing" engines in West Texas. The company previously built two stands for the tests.
Each Vulcan rocket uses a pair of BE-4 engines to launch. ULA waited anxiously for years to receive delivery of the first set. A month ago, ULA completed a key milestone in preparation for the first Vulcan launch, known as"Cert-1," with aIn a statement to CNBC, a ULA spokesperson said"the BE-4 testing issue is not expected to impact our plans for the Vulcan Cert-1 mission.
Last month, Space Force assigned SpaceX and ULA each with six missions under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program. All six of ULA's NSSL missions are set to fly on Vulcan. Additionally, ULA is preparing to bid for Phase 3 contracts under NSSL, with theBlue Origin's BE-4 incident comes after ULA spent three months investigating its own test explosion.
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